April 19, 2011
PHP: Display the first 500 characters of HTML
Question by Vin
I have a huge HTML code in a php variable like :
$html_code = '<div class="contianer" style="text-align:center;">The Sameple text.</div><br><span>Another sample text.</span>....';
I want to display only first 500 characters of this code. This character count must consider the text in HTML tags and should exclude HTMl tags and attributes while measuring the length.
but while triming the code, it should not affect DOM structure of HTML code.
How can i do it in PHP?
Is there any tuorial or working examples available?
Kindly help!!
Answer by Starx
If its the text you want, you can do this with the following too
substr(strip_tags($html_code),0,500);
